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02/29/2008: "Charities create crime"

Much of the crime in the area, Terrill claims, is related to a nearby shelter run by the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless at the corner of Peachtree and Pine streets. As many as 1,000 people crowd into the facility on winter nights.

The Task Force's director, Anita Beatty, said the area's crime can be traced to drug dealers who prey on the homeless, many of whom suffer from drug addiction.

"I'm not saying everybody who lives here is an angel," said Beatty. "But it's simply not true that this place attracts crime to the neighborhood."

[ The attitude of charity is that one takes people who cannot function of their own volition, and subsidize them, so that their lives are not lost. However, charity can never give them what they would have if they were functional, so they commit many crimes. Charity itself is the problem. ]

http://www.ajc.com/search/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2008/02/20/robot_0221.html